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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

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” The Public Trust Doctrine (PTD) is the principle that certain resources are preserved for public use, and that the government is required to maintain them for the public’s reasonable use. As a consequence, “people should treat all creatures decently, and protect them from cruelty, avoidable suffering, and unnecessary killing.”

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Greenland’s Arctic Tern

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Greenlands Institute of Natural Resources primarily conducted their fieldwork in Disko Bay with a special focus on the Arctic terns in Kitsissunnguit. The Arctic tern is a rather social bird and they’re great at protecting each other in their colonies. The Arctic Tern in Detail. An Arctic tern is a rather small and elegant bird.

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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

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The recommendations will sound familiar to any birder or naturalist who wants to protect and improve her local patch: Immediately shut down cat feeding stations. This is a project that clearly spanned decades. Van Der Donck Meadows in the 1700s, with an Indian trail crossing it where W. 231st Street is now located. .

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Should is not a Solution

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And embattled minority should be protected. Dogs should not be used to hunt foxes. People that are interested in conservation are all about the should – conservation’s raison d’être is the people perceiving that we should protect species and ecosystems, we should not allow them to be lost to extinction.

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The Eagle Huntress–A Film Review

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The center of attention are the eagle hunters, erect on their horses, hands protected by thick leather gloves holding their hooded eagles, arms propped up by handmade wooden rests attached to the saddle, weathered faces framed by splendid fur-trimmed hats. (If It’s exciting. It’s part of the natural order of things.

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Tom Regan on the Animal-Rights Movement

Animal Ethics

But prejudices die hard, all the more so when, as in the present case, they are insulated by widespread secular customs and religious beliefs, sustained by large and powerful economic interests, and protected by the common law. To overcome the collective entropy of these forces-against-change will not be easy.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of March 2011)

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Besides founding 10,000 Birds and I and the Bird , Mike has also created a number of other entertaining sites and resources, particularly the Nature Blog Network. Also present in other parts of the park were fox and white-throated sparrows. On Sunday at Kissena Park I saw five species of sparrows. The proposal from U.S.

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